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News News 2012-02-02 11:Feb:nd 2012-02-02 11:Feb:nd http://www.vcta.asn.au registration@vcta.asn.au Copyright 2012 VCTA - Victorian Commercial Teachers Association Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +1000 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +1000 http://www.vcta.asn.au/spotlight/id/63 ABW 2012 and Vic Uni: new time frames. Nominations open Victoria University is proud to be partnering with the 2012 <a href="http://www.vu.edu.au/abw">Australian Business Week (ABW) Enterprise Education program</a>. ABW is one of Australia’s most successful enterprise education programmes for secondary students. This year it has a revised, shorter time frame of 4 weeks commencing 12 May in 2012. <h4>What is Australia Business Week 2012?</h4> ABW 2012 is this year’s Australian Business Week competition, held at Victoria University’s City Flinders campus in the Melbourne CBD. Small teams of high achieving Year 11 students compete against one another across a variety of tasks, from producing a company report for presentation to shareholders to creating a TV advertisement from scratch, all centred on the management of their business, which in 2012 will be a sporting goods manufacturer. Throughout the competition the teams, guided by mentors from high profile businesses like Ernst & Young, QBE and Disney, have their business management skills, leadership, teamwork abilities and creativity put to the test. Visit <a href="http://www.vu.edu.au/abw">www.vu.edu.au/abw for more information</a> Download a brochure here. Nominations (six Yr 11 students per school) close Friday 6 April 2012. Inquiries: Scott Murray at Vic Uni on <a href="mailto:abw@vu.edu.au?subject=ABW%20query">abw@vu.edu.au</a> <h4>The new time frame</h4> Vic Uni has compressed the time frame for 2012 and shifted it to earlier in the year based on the clear feedback from students and staff in 2011 (and avoids clashes with examinations).This year the competition will run over four weeks rather than six, and will commence on Saturday 12 May 2012 at 10.00am at Level 11, City Flinders campus, 300 Flinders Street, Melbourne, running on 19 & 26 May and concluding on 2 June 2012. Schools may nominate a maximum of six (6) Year 11 students to participate, and numbers are limited to 100 students across the state.The programme is non-residential.   Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:17:20 +1000 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:17:20 +1000 http://www.vcta.asn.au/spotlight/id/81 VCTA Life member receives worthy recognition VCTA Life Member and current VCTA Treasurer, Kerry Canty, was recently recognised by The Council of Professional Teaching Associations of Victoria for her outstanding contribution to business education in Victoria. The Council of Professional Teaching Associations of Victoria is the peak organisation representing professional teaching associations in Victoria. Its thirty one member associations are composed of both subject specific, discipline based and cross-curricular organisations which represent teachers across all sectors. The Outstanding Professional Service Award recognises individual members’ outstanding professional contribution to education in Victoria, made in a voluntary capacity to their professional teachers’ association. 2010 Recipient: Jules Aldous, Legal Studies teacher, author, VCTA LIfe member and former member of the VCTA Board of Directors. 2011 Recipient: Kerry Canty, Lecturer in Education (Accounting) at Monash University, member of VCTA Board of Directors and Treasurer. To view the photo of Kerry receiveing her award (shown with VCTA Snr. Vice President  Michael Hill) click <a href="http://www.vcta.asn.au/theassociation/awards">here</a>. Fri, 05 Aug 2011 16:18:38 +1000 Fri, 05 Aug 2011 16:18:38 +1000 http://www.vcta.asn.au/spotlight/id/70 BEA national conference 2012 Call for Papers closes 1 March 2012 The Business Educators Australasia (BEA)  conference Informed and prepared for 21st century learning will be held in Sydney on Thursday 4 and Friday 5 October 2012. Organised by VCTA in conjunction with Economics and Business Educators NSW, the conference provides an excellent forum to be fully updated on the Australian Curriculum and its implications for business and economics education and associated curriculum areas. It will also provide a forum to hear, engage and network with colleagues and speakers from industry and other organisations and on issues surrounding education best practice. Integral to the program is an extensive range of sessionson informing the teaching and learning of economics and business education, including a focus on • economic activity and trends • business development and trends • legal education • civics and citizenship education • consumer and financial literacy • social networking • using Web 2.0 • best practice pedagogy. Educators and others are invited to submit a <a href="http://www.bea.asn.au/events/conferences/index.php">Call for Papers</a>; applications close Tuesday 1 March 2012. For inquiries, call Leonie Swarbrick at VCTA on 03 8412 8007. To register your interest in receiving information from BEA on the 2012 conference visit the BEA website <a href="http://www.bea.asn.au/events/conferences/index.php">here</a>. To learn more about BEA click <a href="http://www.bea.asn.au/mission/index.php">here</a>. VCTA is an affliliate of BEA.